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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2018 02:47:28 EST Strypey

   Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote a book asking how one can compete with "free"? Let's reframe the question. How do we compete with free *and* amoral? How about by doing cheap and ethical? How about by replacing trustless, dehumanizing "platforms" with a return to human-scale organizations based on bulding trust?

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2018 02:55:32 EST Strypey

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      It's been estimated that FarceBook's current revenue could be replaced by charging each user US$5-10 a month.
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/05/what-if-we-paid-for-facebook-instead-of-letting-it-spy-on-us-for-free/

      But I suspect that what FB costs to operate and even make a modest surplus is much less than that. One question that intrigues me is this; would a FB-a-like cost more in less to operate, in aggregate, if we replaced it with a federated platform?

      1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 16-Nov-2018 03:51:19 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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         @strypey If you consider Hubzilla or Zap to be a FB-a-like then there's the one time cost of hardware to run it on and then the electricity cost which won't be much. I bet the electricity cost is less than $5 per month.